Jacques Villeneuve Quotes
Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.
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We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.
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Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play... I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.
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I feel very settled. I'm not running in and out of clubs at 5 A.M. anymore.
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I'm still always surprised that anyone might be interested in my work or me.
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I appear wild on the outside, but I'm a conservative businessman.
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This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.
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Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.
